{"id":263,"date":"2018-07-13T19:40:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T19:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2019-02-26T11:27:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T11:27:22","slug":"narrative-scars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/13\/narrative-scars\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrative Scars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like actual physical scars, traumatic events can permanently change people.\u00a0 People marked by such events are always reminded of them.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a way to represent emotional or mental scars with physical scars in a magical role-playing game.\u00a0 I use Powered By The Apocalypse jargon, since that&#8217;s the kind of RPG I usually run.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When you rest and heal after battle<\/strong>, consider how you earned your wounds. If a wound or the circumstances surrounding it are important to you, it does not heal like normal and you gain a Scar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When you display a Scar to remind yourself or others of the lesson you earned with blood<\/strong>, everyone who sees it takes +1 forward when acting on your lesson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When you decide that a Scar no longer holds power or significance<\/strong>, mark XP. The next time you receive magical healing, the Scar will fade.<\/p>\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A bodyguard re-affirms her conviction by showing the wounds she took in her charge&#8217;s place.<\/li>\n<li>Friends gleefully show the burns from that experimental hoverbike that <em>almost<\/em> worked.<\/li>\n<li>The hero tears off his neckerchief.\u00a0 &#8220;You should have finished the job, Warwick! I won&#8217;t make the same mistake!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We got in too deep on bad intel. I lost a finger and two comrades in that jungle.\u00a0 Never again!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like actual physical scars, traumatic events can permanently change people.\u00a0 People marked by such events are always reminded of them.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a way to represent emotional or mental scars with physical scars in a magical role-playing game.\u00a0 I use Powered By The Apocalypse jargon, since that&#8217;s the kind of RPG I usually run. When you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/13\/narrative-scars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Narrative Scars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rpg","category-snippet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}